
History of genome sequencing
1977 DNA Sequencing by Chemical
Degradation” by Allan Maxam and Walter Gilbert
1978 DNA Sequencing by Enzymatic
Synthesis” is published by Fred Sanger
1980 Fred Sanger and Walter Gilbert receive
the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
1982 GenBank starts as a public repository
of DNA sequences
1986 Leroy Hood’s laboratory at the
California Institute of Technology announces the
first semi-automated DNA sequencing machine.
1977 Genome sequence of
E. coli
is
published
2001 Draft sequence of the Human genome
is published
2004 First next generation sequencing
technologies become available
2009 Genome-wide single-cell sequencing
becomes available